The files in this folder can be used to replicate all figures and tables in the main paper and appendix for ``Pass the Buck or the Buck Stops Here?  The Public Costs of Claiming and Deflecting Blame in Managing Crises."

The content and/or purpose of the files is described below:

Data Files
--MTurk_factorial_design.csv--Contains responses used to conduct factorial analyses in Supplemental Information (see page SI.27).
--MTurk_flint_data.csv--Contains responses used to conduct analyses of Flint experiment (see Figure 2 of main paper and corresponding analyses in Supplemental Information).
--MTurk_stylized_data.csv--Contains responses used to conduct analyses of the three "Governmental Crises" studies that were conducted on MTurk (bridge collapse, budget shortfall, and heat wave).  See Figures 1, 3, and 4 in the main paper and corresponding analyses in Supplemental Information.
--MTurk_stylized_data_ordered.csv--Restructures responses in MTurk_stylized_data.csv to check for ordering effects in the bridge collapse, budget shortfall, and heat wave studies (see Tables SI.11 and SI.12).
--TAPSdata.csv--Contains responses used to conduct analysis of flood study in "Governmental Crises" studies that was conducted on TAPS.

RScripts
--replicateMainPaper.R--Replicates all tables and figures presented in the main paper.
--replicateSI.R--Replicates all tables and figures presented in the SI.

NOTES
--Data files for MTurk experiments include only respondents who passed attention checks.  As noted in footnotes 8 and 19, the results are substantively similar when we included all respondents (i.e., included those who did not pass the attention checks).  If you need access to the full set of respondents (irrespective of attention check passage), please contact the authors.
--In some cases, the Rscripts do not replicate the corresponding tables themselves, but instead provide the information from which the authors manually created the tables.  This occurs when native R functions did not exist to easily convert R objects to LaTeX tables (e.g., results of mediation analyses).